Vulnerability CVE-2024-35878


Published: 2024-05-19

Description:
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

of: module: prevent NULL pointer dereference in vsnprintf()

In of_modalias(), we can get passed the str and len parameters which would
cause a kernel oops in vsnprintf() since it only allows passing a NULL ptr
when the length is also 0. Also, we need to filter out the negative values
of the len parameter as these will result in a really huge buffer since
snprintf() takes size_t parameter while ours is ssize_t...

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with the Svace static
analysis tool.

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4a449368a2ce6d57a775d0ead27fc07f5a86e5b
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/544561dc56f7e69a053c25e11e6170f48bb97898
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1aa5390cc912934fee76ce80af5f940452fa987

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